Missoula Crime Report: Charges Ease as Homicide Trial Approaches
Missoula, MT (KGVO-AM News) - The Missoula County Attorney’s Office filed 14 new felony complaints this week, which is 12 fewer than last week and lower than the weekly average. According to Chief Deputy County Attorney Mac Bloom, last week was their second busiest week of the year, so it was nice to get a reprieve this week.
“We are now into week 35 of this 2025 year, and we had a much quieter week this week than we did last week,” Bloom said. “We ended up charging 14 felonies this week, one violent crime, three endangerment crimes, five property crimes, and five drug crimes.”
Bloom was especially thankful for the quiet week because his office is right in the middle of preparing for a significant trial.
"Our office has been busy preparing for a two-week-long homicide trial that starts next Tuesday,” Bloom said. “So we've been focusing on that a lot this week. It is alleged that the individual involved committed deliberate homicide by killing his mother. It's a very tragic case. It's expected to go for about two weeks, and our office is putting all of its resources into that at the moment.”
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In 2023, Miles Miller allegedly killed his 68-year-old mother during Mother’s Day weekend. County Attorney Matt Jennings explained the possible penalties Miller would face if he is found guilty of killing his mother.
“The penalties in Montana go up to life in prison, and that can be with parole or without parole,” he said. “Somebody who has an opportunity to get parole could hypothetically be paroled after serving 30 years of a life sentence. Sometimes judges have a parole restriction in that you can't get parole for a certain period of time, at least several decades, or life without parole would mean what it says, that you have to actually spend the rest of your life in prison.”
The Missoula County Attorney’s Office provides a weekly crime report every Friday morning at 9:00 on Talk Back.